The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems - Softcover

David Morley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847772064 ISBN 13: 9781847772060

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Winner of the 2015 Poetry Society Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Over the past twenty-five years, the award-winning writer David Morley has become known as one of Britain's most original poets. Renowned for his energy and linguistic inventiveness, Morley is a master storyteller, whose poems uncover 'universes bound together by language' (Guardian). From Romani tales to sharply observed lyrics about nature, from political allegory to vividly imagined histories, his poetry evokes the enchantment and truth of the natural world and our place in it. In the words of Les Murray, 'He holds our world up to a language mostly kept secret; the refraction of the familiar is dizzying and often moving'.

About this title

Review:

'Like opening a box of fireworks' --Ted Hughes Award judges

About the Author:

David Morley has published four previous Carcanet poetry collections and wrote the bestselling Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Enchantment (2010) was a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year. The Invisible Kings (2007) was a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year, chosen by Les Murray. He regularly reviews for the Guardian and is a popular performer at international poetry festivals. He teaches at Warwick University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847772064
• ISBN 13: 9781847772060
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160